Ron Goulart - The Panchronicon Plot

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TIME TRAVEL TIME

"Here we are roaming the picturesque streets of one of the

world's fabled cities, two centuries away from our own era. Do you

realize who's alive in Vienna at the moment? There's Sigmund

Freud, Richard Strauss, Arthur Schnitzler . . . and we might run

into any one of them."

"I want to run into Secretary of Health Toomey before any of

the president's goons come looking for us. Outside of the name

Panchronicon I still don't know what they are using to dump

people . . ."

"Panchronicon?"

"Name mean anything? I think it's what President Bisbiglia

calls the clandestine time machine he's using."

OPYRIGHT

1977,

OULART

Cover art by Josh Kirby.

IRST

RINTING

EBRUARY

1977

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

P R I N T E D I N U

THE PANCHRONICON PLOT 1

Chapter 1

Okay, so the President of the United States has gone completely cuckoo and you're the only one

who knows about it. On top of which, the Time Travel Overseeing Committee won't allow you to

use any of their machines. What would you do about it?

Probably just what Geer, the rumpled, frazzled little boss of the Wild Talent Division did on

that crisp autumn morning in September of 2021. He teleported out to the small coastal town of

Organic, California.

Organic is a deliberately rustic and quiet town in California North, about a hundred miles down

the coast from the state capital of San Francisco. The Vegetable Patch restaurant and market

consists of three seablue neoglass buildings, each roofed with slanting red shingles. The place sits

on a plateau a hundred feet above the Pacific and a narrow twist of sandy beach.

Geer, wearing one of his wrinkled 2-piece worksuits, came trudging up the ramp to the entrance

of the Vegetable Patch a few minutes after 10 AM, Pacific Rational Time. His hair was looking

especially frizzled and disordered, teleportation seemed to do that, and his slightly protruding eyes

had extra circles under them. Geer glanced back over his shoulder several times before pushing at

the door. "Don't be a yoohoo," he warned himself. "They're not on to you, not yet anyway."

Trying to avoid the eye of the slim brunette girl who stood in the kitchen doorway, Geer moved

to a table which would give him a view of the beach. There were a dozen or so other customers

scattered around, including a black man in a 1-piece lycra running suit who was sharing his

breakfast with his pet squirrel.

She saw Geer anyway. He could feel the recognition on the back of his neck. Nevertheless he

sat down, began fiddling with the menu dial. "Mother of mercy, what kind of yoohoo food do they

serve here? Carrot cakes? Squash toast? Pumpkin danish?"

"Go away."

Geer hunched, then turned to face the dark girl. "I have to talk to him."

"No, you don't. Jake doesn't work for you anymore, he's not a WTD agent anymore."

"Ah, now technically he is, Mrs. Conger," said Geer. "He's been on Temporary Retirement Pay

ever since that Sandman fiasco last—"

"I suppose you do consider it a fiasco," said Angelica Conger. "Since Jake decided to save my

life rather than—"

"I personally don't think it a fiasco, no," protested Geer. "I'm merely passing along the feelings

of some of the people at the United States Remedial Functions Agency. After all, like it or nay,

RFA can still tell the Wild Talent Division what to do. You don't realize how I had to romance

those RFA yoohoos to get Jake those checks."

"Yes, we appreciate that," said Angelica, sitting opposite the WTD boss. "We put most of the

money into our restaurant-market operation here. But, Mr. Geer, Jake doesn't—"

"I'd appreciate it if you didn't make too much of my name. This visit isn't exactly clandestine,

but there's no need to—"

"All right, okay. We appreciate what you did. Could you leave now before Jake gets back?"

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TIMETRAVELTIME"Hereweareroamingthepicturesquestreetsofoneoftheworld'sfabledcities,twocenturiesawayfromourownera.Doyourealizewho'saliveinViennaatthemoment?There'sSigmundFreud,RichardStrauss,ArthurSchnitzler...andwemightrunintoanyoneofthem.""IwanttorunintoSecretaryofHealthToomeybeforeanyofthepresident...

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